Technology can be used to set business rules, manage permissions, hierarchies, and approval chains.
Progress on collaborative work was sometimes stymied by differences in institutional cultures, hierarchies, or approval processes.
An American official met today with Iraq's two most senior deputy oil ministers for the first time and warned them not to make any changes in their hierarchy without the approval of the allied forces in control of the country.
With little power vested in small teams, innovation entails going through a labyrinthine hierarchy to get approvals, and yet being coerced into rushing a product to the market, even if it's not truly first-rate, just like the unwieldy Galaxy Gear.
We equally involved managers and policy-makers from the first step of criterion based audit, and we hope that this will facilitate the implementation of recommendations that require extra resources (e.g. finance and staff) and approval of hierarchy.
To meet the expectations of citizens, allocate resources, and encourage accountability, governments are structured to plan projects in advance in detailed policy cycles that respect hierarchies, annual budgets, and approval and review processes.
In addition, cultural hierarchies may demand that approval is obtained from the authority figures in the local context (e.g., village elders, head of family).
However, his confrontational nature did not meet with the approval of the Chelsea hierarchy and in the end, the schism with owner Roman Abramovich became so wide time had to be called on their relationship.
The legacy of imperialism, including its racial hierarchies, is deep; with the current approval rating of the British empire at 43%, this seems unlikely to change.
By doing so they avoid the delays associated with information and approvals traveling up and down the management hierarchy.
These annual plans were difficult to develop because of the need to get approval from all levels of the product hierarchies.
